第三個學生的來信..
After praying for a long time,I finally gave Melody the Bible as a Thanksgiving gift...God is really amazing by showing so many things and how He has been working on Pre-Christians around me these days...
Last week, I had been praying crazily in the Korean church--morning prayer for 5 days...
Praying that God will reveal His plan for me here on earth and where He wants me to serve in there future (meaning after my graduation from SFSU...I still have one year to stay here...)
In fact, originally, I have never thought about staying in the US. because I am the only child and the only Christian in my entire family...I always have a strong burden of my parents', family's, TW friends', and TW teachers' salvation...and I often pray that God will use me as a witness to outreach to those pre-Christians since I myself used to be a non-believer before....I even participated kind of actively in my father's religious beliefs when I was a little girl...
Due to my family background, I have some concrete ideas about Buddhisms, Dualisms, and traditional Taiwanese religious beliefs....so...that's why I've never thought about staying in the U.So go to other country to serve before....
My ideas have been changed when I was in Mississippi....
I don't know why...but I was so inspired at that time...and started to pray for God's calling of my life here on Earth...
So far, I kind of have 5 ideas...but again, I'll be very willing to follow God's will even His plan may not be included by the following five....
1) Stay in the US and teach Chinese in Monterey Language Institute (MLI)-->They want MA TESOL student and Native Chinese speaker...since my teaching philosophy is to use language to communicate with people all over the world, it doesn't really matter which language I'll be teaching...also, I personally like the environment there, and people talk to each other very directly in the US....
2)Go back to TW and teach as a part time lecturer in college lever-->I always want to teach adolescents in formal educational settings since I believe it is the define moment of their lives and if at that time they will have chance to know God, they'll have higher tendency to become more active Christians (Also, I'll volunteer in a Christian-oriented drama club and work for technical theater and lighting stuff)...I always believe that drama can be a power medium to spread God's kingdom...and if it is God's will, I hope to go back to US. to study for MFA--with concentration in lighting and technical theater...
3) Stay in SF and be a part time ESL/Chinese teacher...this way, my life(financially) may be really difficult since most of the institutes desire native English speaker...and I am not sure about the qualification that CCSF requires for their Chinese instructor...>In this way, I can still participate and serve in our TBC(The American church I attend at SF)...a church that I really love and my second home
4) Go to Africa or China or Korea-->as a literally full time missionary and work there for 1-2 years...>This is really OK if it's God's will for me but for my parents, they'll think I am insane...they already think I'm crazy when I went to Mississippi this year....
5) Become a CCCI staff either part time or full time...
***Maybe God has other plans besides those above 5...but I kind of feel that based on my previous training and a currently a teacher in training...those 4 ideas seem very practical to me and also I can see how God can use me in that field....so...I'm not sure yet....but I'll keep praying...this thing will be my prayer request for the coming year...
Thank you for your time to read this long email as well as your continuous prayer for my family's salvation.
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